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The Quran Teaches that All Life is Sacred

The Game:

Verse 5:32 promotes a universal principal that all life is sacred to Allah. It says "If any
one slew a person... it would be as if he slew a whole people; and if any one
saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of a whole people..."

The Truth:

This fragment of
verse 5:32 appears above as it was quoted by the Fiqh Council of North America. It is
what apologists want non-Muslims to believe is in the
Quran, as opposed to the dozens of other open-ended passages that command
warfare, beheadings and torture. But even this quote from verse 5:32 isn’t quite how it appears.
It leaves out a few words.

"On that
account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a
person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land -
it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it
would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came
to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them
continued to commit excesses in the land.”

First,
notice the gaping loophole. Killing is allowed in cases of murder or "for
spreading mischief in the land." Murder is pretty straightforward, but
"spreading mischief?" If anything begged for a careful and precise
explanation, a phrase authorizing torture certainly would. But generations of Muslims are
left to apply their own interpretation of what "mischief" means - with varying
standards. Violating Sharia (Islamic law) or sharing a different religious faith
appears to qualify. Verse 7:103 of the Quran even indicates that merely rejecting
Muhammad and the Quran counts as "mischief".

Secondly,
note the broader context of this verse. It turns out that this isn’t a
divine command to Muslims after all. It’s a recounting of a rule that was
given to the Jewish people (lifted from the Talmud, in fact). It isn’t an admonition against killing. It’s an
imagined indictment against the Jews for violating the law given to them. “Any one” doesn’t mean
“anyone,” but rather any one of the Jews.

Any
application to Muslims would have to apply only to Muslims - as in Muslim-on-Muslim murder within the brotherhood of believers. In fact, the context of the verse is the murder of Abel by Cain.
Historically, this verse has never been interpreted by Islamic scholars
to mean that Allah
places equal value on the lives of non-Muslims. The Quran says that
restitution for murder is bound by the law of equality (2:178) and that
non-believers are not equal to Muslims (39:9). Muhammad affirmed
that while a Muslim may be punished with death for
killing a fellow Muslim, they should
never be slain for killing a non-believer.

Rather than
encouraging tolerance, Sura 5 as a whole is actually an incitement of
hatred with a hint of violence. Later in the chapter, Jews and Christians are explicitly cursed
as ‘wicked’ people with ‘diseased hearts’ and as hateful ‘blasphemers’
respectively. Muhammad goes on to coyly remind his people that Allah loves
those who “fight” in his service - and it’s fairly obvious who the enemy is.

Muslim
apologists also leave out the fact that 5:32 is immediately followed by a gruesome verse which actually
mandates killing in the case of the aforementioned "mischief" - and this isn't pulled from the Talmud. It even
suggests crucifixion and “the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite
sides.” (This injunction is
dutifully followed by ISIS)

Although verse 5:32 recounts the law given to Jews, the
verse that follows is clearly intended for Muslims. (Imagine if instead of upping the law against murder to include anger, Jesus stated, "You have heard it was said that all
life is sacred, but I tell you that those who wage war against God should
be crucified...")

Verse 5:33 provides the basis for blasphemy laws, in which people
are executed for insulting or questioning Islam.
Ironically
then, the very part of
the Quran that apologists use to portray Islam as a non-violent religion has
long been used as justification for making verbal offense into a
capital crime.

So, the
Quran's best example of moral instruction is a passage which actually mandates
the torture and execution of those deemed a threat to Islamic hegemony...

With this
being the best that Islam has to offer, it’s not hard to guess why the religion
contributes over a thousand deadly terrorist attacks to the world each and every year.